Aug 28, 2021 — CCP Zulu published a [dev blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=934) on Sunday, June 26 which talked about an upcoming summit with the [CSM](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Council_of_Stellar_Management) and CCP to "discuss the events of the past week, to help us define and address the real underlying concerns, and to assist us in defining and iterating on our virtual goods strategy.**"** During the last two days the CSM have discussed these issues with CCP Zulu (Senior Producer for EVE ...

Aug 28, 2021 — As some of you might know we've been working on something called Corp Locations (formerly called corp bookmarks). The concept is quite simple really. Once Crucible is released, you will be able to share your bookmarks with your corp so anyone in the corp can see them and use them. Well, you're not exactly sharing them, what you are really doing is copying them and giving them to the corp. There is a little bit more to it than that though. To protect our server the corp bookmarks are cached so t...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello! First of all we want to thank you for all your feedback and interest in the [Player Owned Customs Office](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2899)! We have gone through the thread and thanks to the efforts of the community team as well as Team Pi members sitting up all night following the thread we believe we have a pretty good grasp on your feedback and your concerns (let us know if we don't). One thing that really stood out was your concern for the transition period when all...

Aug 28, 2021 — tl;dr This is a theory blog, there is no tl;dr. Sorry! **The top bit** So as you may or may not have heard, Team BFF are thinking about nullsec again, with an eye to making some improvements over the next year or so. In the past we've often started thinking about nullsec again because we were unhappy with our sovereignty mechanics (again), which leads into a nice self-contained area of work. This time our initial discussions were about resources and industry in nullsec, which are things that ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hi! CCP Punkturis of BFF here with another feature coming in the Winter Expansion! Remember when we published the [font dev blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2401)? You guys gave us a lot of good comments from that and the majority was about the font size. EVE's current UI has been designed based on a certain fixed font size.  For a UI to properly work with scalable fonts requires the design itself to take that into account from the start similar to how HTML works in webpages.  ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Dear space friends,  To date, the EVE Online third party development community was only permitted to sell its products for ISK. After careful consideration of the growing requests for change, we set out to establish a program that will allow these third party developers to charge a fee for their services, if they so choose, but in such a way that also lets CCP protect its intellectual property and protects the EVE Online community from potentially harmful applications.  An overview of our tent...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello! I am CCP Cascade, Associate Technical Producer working in the Core Technology Group. I have been given the role of Internet Herald to tell you about some of the projects the Core Infrastructure team, CCP Atropos, CCP Mandrake, CCP Sputnik, and CCP TopKnot have recently worked on. The team works on a lot of in-house tech that you don’t often get to see, but they also work on some pretty important stuff that you see every day, such as the installer, patcher and repair tool. You might know ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello, everyone. The end of 2012 quickly approaches, and what a year it has been. We set out back in January planning to continue the path we started upon in [Crucible](//community.eveonline.com/en/crucible/); to improve the player experience while focusing primarily on core gameplay.  We gained a lot of ground on the improvement front with [Inferno](//www.eveonline.com/inferno/) and then really took it to the next level with the new ship roles and rebalancing efforts in [Retribution](//www.eveo...

Aug 28, 2021 — You might or might not have noticed a thread a couple of weeks back where some rather tech-savvy EVE players managed to fiddle with a couple of files in the client, effectively enabling them to put their own video content onto the Captain’s Quarters main screen. Although we worship the sandbox and love it when you use our game to do things we could never have foreseen, we really don’t like it when people start fiddling with the EVE client files, mostly because it may get you into trouble the nex...

Aug 28, 2021 — I am proud to announce that this winter, we are going to release some long-anticipated ship balancing. Specifically, capital ship balancing. For a long time, there has been an outcry in the community that fleet fights are stagnating and are just not as fun as they should be. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of pages of forum threads dedicated to this subject both on the [official EVE Online forums](//forums.eveonline.com), other EVE forums, as well as in blogs and articles. There is no shor...

Aug 28, 2021 — As we have [hinted at](//cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2701/2918/Winter2011Ships01.jpg), the [Tornado](//news.deviantart.com/article/133951/), originally designed by [dreamwa1ker](//dreamwa1ker.deviantart.com/) from Deviant Art (Pattern Clarc in EVE), is warping into the 2011 winter expansion...and it‘s bringing friends. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2765/3001/Minmatar_02.jpg) We couldn‘t ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Last but certainly not least in the line of ships en route to TQ in the upcoming Winter Expansion, is the Caldari Naga. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2816/3059/Caldari_Ship.jpg) _Click to enlarge_ The Naga is based on David L‘s _„Caldari battleship“_ design, from the [Create a Starship](//evecontest.com/finalvote/) contest, which has now been repurposed for battlecruiser duty. In the earthly cul...

Aug 28, 2021 — _"I like to melt stuff and I dislike stuff that doesn't melt"_  -Phoebe‘s brother in the TV show Friends Based on the Mentor, originally designed by Alexey M for the „[Create a starship](//evecontest.com/finalvote/)“ contest, the Oracle is the third player created spaceship coming out of warp in our upcoming winter expansion. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2791/3035/Mentor_Battlecruiser.j...

Aug 28, 2021 — As we speak, our artists (don‘t worry, I don‘t actually get to [draw ships](//www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150362915094394&set=a.10150357499574394.364414.17614129393&type=1&theater)) and game designers are working on the Talos, making sure it‘s ready for the abuse you guys are planning to put it through following our upcoming winter expansion. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2768/3014/Gallente_...

Aug 28, 2021 — The four price indices of New Eden have been calculated for September 2011.  For more detail on the indices, please refer to the [Market Indices page on Evelopedia](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Market_Indices). Prices of PI made POS fuel rise by 15% from last month.  The index blog for August mentioned the negative correlation between the prices of PI made POS fuel and ice products.  Sure enough, this month sees ice product prices decline, but only by a meager 1.4%.  This is less than one would...

Aug 28, 2021 — I always find it fascinating how the most life threatening issues often come up from the smallest, most innocent moves. For instance, you could enjoy a meal at home, drop the dirty cutlery into the sink with the firm intention to clean it the day after, only to realize two weeks have passed and the kitchen is now inhabited by a new indigenous, hostile life-form derived from all the junk you forgot to wash during that time. The same shocking, and quite horrifying principles apply with ship balan...

Aug 28, 2021 — ## ...then this is for you! Christmas, CCP, You, and Our Thanks! Pilots of New Eden, It is that time of year again. The time of year when you curl up in front of the fire with a hot cup of coco... HAHAHA who am I kidding. It's that time of year when you all log into EVE to get away from your family so that you can actually enjoy your holidays! To help support you all through this difficult time of year we have a set of gifts for you. These gifts will be given out on December 13th, 20th, and 2...

Aug 28, 2021 — Following the [announcement](//www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4769&tid=1) by CCP Manifest on Wednesday, October 19 concerning the goals of CCP and the downsizing of staff, it became clear to many players that the EVE Community team was one of those affected. The loss of our colleagues, friends and mentors has saddened us greatly and we wish them all the very best for the future. So what is happening with the Community team now? Will players see less communication from CCP on the develo...

Aug 28, 2021 — _As requested in last week's special CSM summit_ EVE Online players and the Council of Stellar Management have been asking questions, looking to understand the pricing strategy unfolding in the in-game virtual goods store The Noble Exchange (NeX.) The store opened with relatively few items, which was "by design" so we could take small measured initial steps in virtual goods sales. However there weren't enough items in the store to build a very clear image of pricing strategy. In an effort to he...

Aug 28, 2021 — Greetings lovely Internet Spaceship pilots!  _Hanging some bots out to dry_ Some of you have rather astutely noticed by virtue of reading various shadey forums that we've taken some administrative action against some botters. I'm saving pretty pictures and graphs for Fanfest (I don't have any yet) but I'll say that the total number of accounts actioned against was more than 1000 and less than 2000\. I'm actually quite happy ...